Introduction

This page compares the performance of each country at the Winter Olympics, compared to the total number of medals available at each event.
We can also compare this ratio to the percentage of athletes from a given country vs. the total number of athletes at each event here
Average but not outstanding result for France at the 2014 Olympics :
Although France beat its record of medals, it is not the largest number of French medals if we compare this number to the total number of medals available (5.1 % of the total, the French 6th performance in history, behind 1968 , 1948 , 1964, 1924 and 1992 - the record being 8.5 %).
And if we restrict this analysis to gold medals, Sochi becomes the 8th best result with 4.0 % of the medals available ( 11.4 % in 1968 ).
But if we say "it is certainly easier than before to get medals because of the proliferation of events, but it is also harder because of the increased number of participants, which is a good point.
We can then look at the ratio (% medals / total medals at stake ) / ( % French athletes / total # of athletes )
In this case , Sochi are the second best game of the French , with a ratio of 1.39 (3.10 in 1964, and 1.36 in 1948 and 1.13 in Grenoble-1968). And this ratio instead Sochi mind of the 5th if you look only at the gold medals .
This is good result for France, but not the best ever